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On Wednesday 01 July 2009 16:30:26 Peter Humphrey wrote: |
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> Hello list, |
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> Can anyone explain this to me? |
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> |
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> $ /bin/grep -r hmenu *html |
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> index.html: <div id="hmenu"> |
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> master.html: <div id="hmenu"> |
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> pictures.html: <div id="hmenu"> |
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The star is evaluated /before/ grep is executed. Therefore, only files that are |
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ending with html are searched recursively. If you had placed the files in a |
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directory called blablahtml, then grep would have searched there. |
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> $ /bin/grep -r hmenu pages/*html |
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> pages/community.html: <div id="hmenu"> |
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> pages/contacts.html: <div id="hmenu"> |
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> pages/history.html: <div id="hmenu"> |
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> pages/music.html: <div id="hmenu"> |
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> pages/news.html: <div id="hmenu"> |
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> pages/people.html: <div id="hmenu"> |
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> pages/pictures.html: <div id="hmenu"> |
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> Grep is clearly disobeying the recursion command. I started noticing this a |
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> few days ago, and it's making maintenance of this directory hard work. |
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No, you just did not tell it to search in the the directory pages. :) |
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HTH |
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Patrick |
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